crowemagnon Great story, pacing, atmosphere, and editing. Fantastic, as might be expected, performance from Will Patton. Although it contains what may arguably be considered the best film performance by Richard Gere, one still has to consider how great this film might've been with better principle casting.

The_LenMan I've only written a couple of reviews in the 8 or so years I've been using IMDb. So, to me it means something. It also shows that it takes quite an event to make me want to write a review.One of my biggest pet peeves is lying. I don't like it when people do it to me; and it's even worse for some reason, when a filmmaker uses an event or book title to get me to see a movie. That's what happened here. The director thought it was a good idea to take events that happened in the 60's, and make them happen in the 2000's. Why? Who knows? Personally, I think it's laziness. But I can overlook that. The time period in which things happen means next to nothing to me. The changing of facts, including the text at the very end of the film "no definitive cause was ever found for..." - seriously? - like it somehow adds any weight to your movie to lie about an event that anyone can easily look up? Check out the article "silver bridge collapse" on Wikipedia. It's right there in the first couple of sentences. Think about that lie, for a moment. It's a flat-out lie about something that you can easily fact-check. The Mothman Prophesies was a book written by someone who was there, as it was happening in 1968-9. Regardless if the author's words were 100% gospel, there weren't people alive at the time raising a ruckus about how he misquoted them or misrepresented events. Which means for the most part, he was telling it like it was. The movie is almost the complete opposite. Other than the names of people and locations, there is almost nothing brought over from the book to the movie.So, is it a good movie? Kind of. But not really. Maybe if you're a 12 year old who will think everything is true when the movie says "based on actual events". But for me, just as a suspense-thriller or whatever you want to call it, this one was just OK. The plot was formulaic, the action scenes were flash-chaos-shakycam, and there were some stupid continuity errors like a modern phone with bell ringer, or characters wearing gloves and not wearing gloves in the same scene. Just sloppy. Which in the end makes one think - were there lawyers figuring out how much from the book they would have to include, to be able to give the movie the same name? Just meh. Glad I didn't pay to go see it.

Bee Zee I was so excited to see this coming on TV. Good TV, no commercials, no cutting, the full movie. Actually had famous people in it. Had great viewer reviews. Woohoo!!After one hour I was so bored, I thought something has to happen any minute now. 30 more minutes, nothing. 20 more minutes, nothing. Whoever said this was good, scary, horror, thriller, interesting, entertaining, worth the watch for any reason at all -- sure doesn't expect much from a movie. It was sooo boring, a nap in an ant hill would have been less painful and more interesting. Even in the middle of the night, by yourself, out in the woods in a tent with spooky bloody snarly howling all around you, the hook hanging from your car door handle is a better story than this stupid movie. Don't waste you time.

lemagicienbergier I fell in love with this movie at the first sight. Its atmosphere, music, acting, artistic impression, everything is perfect. Splashes of red or pink in every shot. Lightning is perfect. Colours are perfect. That shot in slow-motion of Richard Gere walking through the chophouse and that painting in the background, it is unforgettable. This movie I've watched maybe 30 times. And it never be boring. Never makes me tired of it. I no way named it as a horror. It is mystery, drama, but not a horror, people who see it like that see it wrong.And soundtrack. Brilliant. Cacophonic melodies. And for critics: Alexander Leek: "You're asking for an explanation for something that can't be explained rationally." Do not try to grasp this movie rationally.Btw: everyone who in the movie saw mothman, died.